kie

See also: -kie and ki'e

English

Etymology

Compare kee.

Noun

kie pl (plural only)

  1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) kine; cows
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for kie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

ki- (“interrogative and relative correlative prefix”) + -e (“correlative suffix of place”)

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

kie (accusative kien)

  1. where
    Tie li trovis post unuhora promenado kaj pridemandado la ponton, kie li trovos sian feliĉon.
    There he found, after one hour of walking and interrogating, the bridge, where he would find his happiness.

Adverb

kie (accusative kien)

  1. where

Derived terms

Usage notes

Like other interrogative and relative correlatives, kie can be combined with ajn, the adverbial particle of generality. Kie ajn thus means wherever.

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ke.

Pronoun

kie

  1. who

Further reading

Yola

Noun

kie

  1. quay

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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